Walking to school

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What age can a child walk a short distance (10 minutes) to school?

Do you mean alone?
At our school Yr5, irrespective of distance, with permission from parent/carer.

What age/s are they in year 5?
Do many kids do it? Is it a 'done' thing?

Kids are permitted to walk to school from year 4 onwards at our local primary, so 8 years old onwards.

Yr5 is 9. The majority of my DDs class (Yr5) leave without a parent... Many walk home alone or with friends, others meet up with parents or siblings from younger years (mine finds our car while I get her younger sister... We live s 15min drive)

Wow 8 sounds young to me? Although, I'm sure I did "in my day"

By themselves? I live in a 3 tier school system area so year 4 is the norm here.

Sorry that should say the last few weeks of year 4 in prep for walking to middle school in year 5.

At my DCs school they can walk from Year 6.

Depending on roads, would think that would be fine from Year 4 (age 8/9) Walking to school (regardless of distance) pretty widespread by Year 5 (age 9/10) at DC' s school. My DC travelled just over a mile as did many of their classmates.

Year 6 so 10/11.

Whether it's "the done thing" is extremely school dependent. At DC's school a good half were travelling home alone at the start of Year 5 which gradually increased through the year and into Year 6.
My SIL was horrified when I told her this. Apparently at her DC's school no one walked home alone until the last term of Year 6.

Depends what roads there are to cross (or not).

My DC had several rat run roads to cross with blind bends so they could never walk alone it was too dangerous as an adult!